Question on EMBOSS libraries (fwd)

[Bill Shui]

Hi Alan,
    Bill here, I thought I should clarify my question.

    Basically, I didn't want to use emboss to write XML reports, it should
    be handled by the database system.

    I'm writing a bioinformatics plugin to a semi-structured database system.

    The the query would not be like SQL, but of the same essence.

    I had a look at the code, but I thought it really depends on lot of acd
    files, so everytime you want to run a program, you'll have to initialise
    pretty much all of the acd settings and loading matrices, etc.


    what I want to do is that all these settings, ie. matrices and codon
    tables will be loaded into the database management system's main kernel
    at the system start up.

    such that when a user later issue a command to run a certain program,
    it need not to reinitialize all the settings. Since I"m really breaking
    up all the emboss code to suit my need, I really need to know which
    routines in the ajax library are essential for the core computation, eg.
    routines that do the actual sequence alignments.


hope this clarified my previous question.

thanks in advance.

Bill

    

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:46:11PM +0800, Jingchu Luo wrote:
> This is the feedback I got from Alan Bleasby, the EMBOSS head.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:41:22 +0100 (BST)
> From: ableasby at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
> To: luojc at plum.lsc.pku.edu.cn
> Subject: Re: Question on EMBOSS libraries (fwd)
> 
> Indeed. The question is so vague though I don't know precisely
> what he wants. If you read the minutes of the last EMBOSS
> meeting (:-) last Friday then you'll see I volunteered
> to have emboss write XML reports as an option.
> 
> Cheers old chum
> 
> Alan
> 

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